UN IVERSIT Y OF C HICAGO PRESS 1427 EAST 60TH STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60637 N IO IT ED L NA IO AT NTERN I 2015 BOOKS LL FA CHICAGO CHICAGO International Fall 2015 Fall Edition Recently Published Fall 2015 Contents General Interest 1 Special Interest 41 Paperbacks 108 Blood Runs Green Siena Distributed Books 134 The Murder That Transfixed Gilded City of Secrets Age Chicago Jane Tylus Gillian O’Brien ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20782-7 Author Index 208 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24895-0 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 Cloth $25.00/£17.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20796-4 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24900-1 Title Index 210 Subject Index 212 Ordering Inside Information back cover Infested Elephant Don How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse Bedrooms and Took Over the World Caitlin O’Connell Brooke Borel ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10611-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04193-3 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10625-0 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04209-1 Plankton Say No to the Devil Cover illustration by André-Marie-Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron; appears in the Erpétologie générale, published Wonders of the Drifting World The Life and Musical Genius of 1834–1854. Christian Sardet Rev. Gary Davis Cover design by Mary Shanahan ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18871-3 Ian Zack Cloth $45.00/£31.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23410-6 Catalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26534-6 Cloth $30.00/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23424-3 JESSA CRISPIN The Dead Ladies Project Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries hen Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chica- go life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of W suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she’s still on the road, in search of not so much a home as understand- ing, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender. The Dead Ladies Project is an account of that journey—but it’s also much, much more. Fascinated by exile, Crispin travels an itinerary of “Crispin is both smart enough to know key locations in its literary map, of places that have drawn writers who there are no answers, and human enough needed to break free from their origins and start afresh. As she reflects to admit she needs them; her resulting on William James struggling through despair in Berlin, Nora Barnacle travelogue is a phenomenal record of the dependant on and dependable for James Joyce in Trieste, Maud Gonne mind in service (maybe) of the heart.” fomenting revolution and fostering myth in Dublin, or Igor Stravinsky —Shalom Auslander, starting over from nothing in Switzerland, Crispin weaves biography, author of Hope: A Tragedy incisive literary analysis, and personal experience into a rich medita- tion on the complicated interactions of place, personality, and society OCTOBER 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-27845-2 that can make escape and reinvention such an attractive, even intoxi- Paper $16.00/£11.00 cating proposition. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-27859-9 TRAVEL LITERATURE Personal and profane, funny and fervent, The Dead Ladies Project ranges from the nineteenth century to the present, from historical figures to brand-new hangovers, in search, ultimately, of an answer to a bedrock question: How does a person decide how to live their life? Jessa Crispin is the editor and founder of the magazines Bookslut and Spolia. She has written for the New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post, Los Ange- les Review of Books, NPR.org, Chicago Sun-Times, Architect Magazine, and other publications. She has lived in Kansas, Texas, Ireland, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere. general interest 1 RAYMOND COPPINGER and MARK FEINSTEIN How Dogs Work ow well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as “man’s best friend,” but what actually drives Hthe things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads as they look at us with their big, expressive eyes? Raymond Cop- pinger and Mark Feinstein know something about these questions, and with How Dogs Work, they’re ready to share; this is their guide to understanding your dog and its behavior. Approaching dogs as a biological species rather than just as pets, Coppinger and Feinstein accessibly synthesize decades of research and field experiments to explain the evolutionary foundations of dog behaviors. They examine the central importance of the shape of dogs: “Written by two of the most distinguished how their physical body (including the genes and the brain) affects teachers and scientists ever to have behavior, how shape interacts with the environment as animals grow, studied dogs, Coppinger and Feinstein, and how all of this has developed over time. Shape, they tell us, is what this book explores the behavioral design makes a champion sled dog or a Border collie that can successfully of the dog most eloquently. But this is no herd sheep. Other chapters in How Dogs Work explore such mysteries dry scientific tome; rather it is delightfully as: why dogs play; whether dogs have minds, and if so what kinds of and sensitively written, and will surely things they might know; why dogs bark; how dogs feed and forage; and strengthen your love of dogs by enhanc- the influence of the early relationship between mother and pup. Go- ing your appreciation of their evolution ing far beyond the cozy lap dog, Coppinger and Feinstein are equally alongside man, their emotions and their fascinated by what we can learn from the adaptations of dogs, wolves, behavior. It is quite simply a ‘must have’ coyotes, jackals, dingoes, and even pumas in the wild, as well as the for all dog enthusiasts, dog behaviorists behavior of working animals like guarding and herding dogs. and training professionals and is an illumi- We cherish dogs as family members and deeply value our lengthy nating joy to read for all dog owners.” companionship with them. But isn’t it time we knew more about who —Peter Neville, Ohio State University and the Center of Fido and Trixie really are? How Dogs Work will provide some keys to un- Applied Pet Ethology, Sheffield, UK locking the origins of many of our dogs’ most common, most puzzling, and most endearing behaviors. OCTOBER 224 p., 8 color plates, 41 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12813-9 Raymond Coppinger is professor emeritus of biology at Hampshire College. Cloth $26.00/£18.00 His books include Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32270-4 Evolution, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Mark Feinstein is PETS professor of cognitive science at Hampshire College. 2 general interest CRAIG PACKER Lions in the Balance Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns rom flat-topped acacia trees to great migrations of wildebeest across an edgeless expanse of grass, the Serengeti is one of F the world’s most renowned ecosystems. And at the apex of this incredible landscape prowls its seemingly indomitable ruler: the Seren- geti lion. These majestic mammals are skillful hunters, iconic, and in- tegral to Serengeti health. But they also commit infanticide, eat people and destroy local livelihoods, are a source of profit for those who make Praise for Into Africa money shooting or conserving them (and sometimes both), and are in “A vivid, day-by-day view of field biolo- constant danger from the encroachments of another species: humans. gists at work. In the tradition of Jane With Lions in the Balance, celebrated lion researcher and conser- Goodall and George Schaller, Packer has vationist Craig Packer takes us back into the complex, tooth-and-claw written an engaging account of his Afri- worlds of lion conservation and behavior. A sequel to Packer’s Into can experience.” Africa—which gave many readers their first experience of field work —Publishers Weekly in Africa, of Tanzanian roads, of long hours spent identifying lions by their ear marks and scars, and of the joys of bootlegged Grateful Dead “A lucid, informative, and highly enter- tapes beneath savannah moons—this diary-based chronicle of adven- taining account of the fieldwork of an ture, real-life danger, and corruption will both alarm and entertain. American biologist among the primates at Packer’s story offers a look into the future of the lion, one in which Gombe and the lions of the Serengeti and the politics of conservation will require survival strategies far more the Ngorongoro Crater.” creative and powerful than any now possessed by the citizens of the —Economist savannah—humans included. SEPTEMBER 440 p., 29 halftones 6 x 9 Packer is sure to infuriate poachers, politicians, and conservation- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09295-9 ists alike as he minces no words about the problems he sees. But with Cloth $35.00/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09300-0 a narrative stretching from Arusha to Washington, DC, and marked by NATURE Packer’s signature humor and incredible candor, Lions in the Balance is a tale of courage against impossible odds, a masterly blend of science and story- telling, and an urgent call to action that will captivate a pride of readers. Craig Packer is professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior and director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota.